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Native American Issues and the Tribal and Criminal Justice Systems. Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Office for Victims of Crime. The Voices of Victims Series. Native American Issues and the Tribal and Criminal Justice Systems NCJ 213810. The Voices of Victims video series is a five-tape collection designed to educate criminal justice and social service professionals and the general public about victims’ rights. Through these videos, you will discover information about the need for a constitutional amendment; financial assistance for victims of crime; victims’ dealings with criminal justice professionals; victim notification rights; and the unique issues encountered in Indian Country. Tapes in the Voices of Victims series are Financial Considerations (NCJ 213806), Notice and Basic Case Information (NCJ 213807), Constitutional Amendment: Balancing the Scales (NCJ 213808), Criminal Justice Professionals (NCJ 213809) and American Indian Issues and the Tribal and Criminal Justice Systems (NCJ 213810). This item is part of the collection: Open Source Movies. Producer: Office for Victims of Crimes. Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Part One.
In 1969, at a time when there were only ten Native American PHDs, Academic Revolutionary Lehman Brightman Founded & Coordinated The First Native Americans Studies Program in The United States at UC Berkeley. Two Months Into Assuming the teaching position at UCB, Brightman & a Group of Students attended the Annual Meeting of The National Congress of American Indians.

October 9th 1969 NCAI Held their Annual Meeting in Albuquerque New Mexico. At that Time, says Brightman, “it was the largest, most politically powerful Indian Group in The United States—Every Indian Of Importance was there.”

Scheduled speakers included Vice President Spiro Theodore Agnew & Walter J. Hickel, the Nixon-appointed Secretary of the Interior and Edward Kennedy. At the time Hickel, whose Office Oversaw the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was leading a Movement to END ALL FEDERAL TREATIES with Indian Nations. ”We can’t just let nature run wild,” said Walter J. Hickel. Professor Brightman, who had Testified before Congress Against Hickel’s appointment Organized a Picket Line that Booed Hickel Off The Stand. Later, Members of United Native Americans,Inc Duped The BIA into Signing a Petition Calling For Hickel’s Resignation. United Native Americans,Inc Was The First Militant Indian Organization To Rise To National Prominence.

Walter J. Hickel served as governor of Alaska from 1966-1968 and from 1990 — 1994 and as U.S. secretary of the interior from 1969 — 1970.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pipeline/peopleevents/p_hickel.html
Spiro Theodore Agnew- is the only Vice President in U.S. history to resign because of criminal charges.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiroAgnew

Part Two.
Indians Invade Mount Rushmore

On August 29th, 1970, a small group of dedicated young Indians Invaded Mount Rushmore, the so called “National Shrine of Democracy,” located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The Indian people who took part in this out standing feat, did so at the Invitation of the Local Indian people from Rapid City, South Dakota and the Surrounding Reservations. Most of these young Indians were from Different Tribes and Reservations who Volunteered to Help the Sioux in their efforts to force the Federal Government to pay for the illegal taking of their land 94 years ago in 1877. The Invasion started at 8:00PM. Sat. Evening, the 29th of August 1970, when 23 young Indians, most of whom were college students, braved arrest and fines to help the Sioux regain their Sacred Black Hills. By 7:00AM the next Morning after an all night game of hide and seek or (rangers and Indians) most of the protesters had reached the Top of the Mountain near the four faces of the Presidents, where they hung out a large flag, with the Words, “SIOUX INDIAN POWER.” And After a Brief ceremony, they renamed the Mountain “Crazy Horse Mountain” in Honor of the Famous war chief “Crazy Horse.”
The Principal Leaders of the Invasion were: Lehman Brightman, National President of (U.N.A.) Dennis Banks, Executive Director of (A.I.M), Russell Means, the Leader of the Cleveland (A.I.M.) group and Carrol Swan, who helped coordinate the whole affair. Once all 23 members had reached the top and assembled, they proceeded to Establish a camp and an occupation that would last for approximately three months, or until Severe winter weather forced the withdrawal.
The incredible story behind this invasion and Occupation started five days earlier, when the local Sioux Indian people from Rapid City, South Dakota and the surrounding reservations established picket lines at the base of the monument. But after four days and nights of demonstrations the park authorities were not only not listening, but seemed to think the whole thing was a big joke. That is until the local People invited out of state Indians and National Indian Organizations to Aid them in their heroic endeavor. After taking the mountain and occupating it for a period of ten days or more, most of the college students and others were forced to return to school or their jobs, but by then the movement had caught on and Indian People from Across South Dakota were visiting the Mountain bring Food and Water and Replacing the original invaders by two fold. This was the First Indian uprising in South Dakota since the Sioux Wiped Out Custer in 1876, and suddenly young and old alike were taking new faith, Indians were Fighting Back. During the Second day of the Occupation the park authorities sent a message they wanted to talk with the leaders of the group to determine what they wanted and how long they intended to stay, Lehman Brightman replied, “as long as the grass grows, the water flows and the sunshine’s,” which didn’t seem to please them much.
For More Infomation On The Take Over of Mount Rushmore Check Out This Link:
http://www.myspace.com/thewashichustolethepahasa
United Native Americans Inc. Fighting for Natives Since 1968. Join us at
http://www.myspace.com/unitednativeamericansinc

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Native American Meditation 14;
- Upon suffering; Crazy Horse-Lakota

Native American Meditations is dedicated to the Buffalo Hearts of the Native American Nations, Tribes and Confederacies; Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Black Elk, Red Cloud, Pontiac, Fool’s Crow, Sunbear, Chief Seattle, Tecumseh, Logan, Mangus Colorado, Quanah Parker, Cochise, Osceola, Powhatan, Joseph Brant, Washakie, Geronimo, Looking Glass, Plenty Coups, Red Jacket, Black Hawk, Gall, Sequoyah, Wovoka, those whose words appear here, and those whose words can no longer be heard; your spirit, strength and accomplishments burn in our hearts still. Hetch etu (it is so).

All performances, nature sounds and images were recorded on location. Every contributor to this project is Native American. May this contemplative music will help you connect with Mother Earth and you two-legged, four-legged, winged and finned Brothers and Sisters.
-PJ Coyote Caller Birosik-

Narrators; PJ Coyote Caller Birosik/Tungus-Chumash, Joe Chasing Horse/Lakota, June Dogskin/Hunkpapa, Marvin Helper/Lakota, Nyla Helper/Lakota, Bernard Ice/Lakota, Timothy Kills In Water/Sincangu-Lakota, Rosalie Little Thunder/Sincangu-Lakota, Everett poor Thunder/Lakota, Brooke Schiavi/Cherokee-Lakota, Steve Schiavi/Cherokee-Lakota, Fred Sinkevich/Cherokee-Lakota, David Swallow Jr./Lakota, Cordell Tuley/Dineh.

Suggested reading list about Native American Culture and Beliefs.
-The American heritage book of Indians (W. Brandon)
The Sacred (Beck, Walters&Francisco)
Fools Crow; wisdom& power (T.Mails)
Black elk; the sacred ways of a Lakota (W.Black Elk&W.Lyon)
Buffalo hearts (Sun Bear)
Native American Wisdom (Nernburn&Mengelkoch)
The soul of an Indian (Ohiyesa/C.A. Eastman)
The Indians book (Natalie Curtis)

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This noncommercial video is my vision of Native American Indians culture and modern society problems… We should choose the future way of living… There is no more time to wait…

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This DVD looks at the ancient health and healing methods of American Indians. It discusses the invaluable contributions the Native Americans made to our early frontier heritage and shows how many of those same healing plants and herbs are an important source of today’s modern methods of maintaining health. Learn Native American healing practices from traditional tribal elders. Learn from today’s respected physicians thecrossover of ancient Native American healing remedies to present-day medical practices. Discover the contents of a 350 year old Indian medicine bag. Learn about Herbal healing remedies for Heart & Circulatory, Arthritis, Female conditions, Respiratory, Asthma, Skin Conditions, Digestive tract. Sinus and much more… The point is clearly made that what has been effective for thousands of years may still be the best means of maintaining a healthy lifestyle today.

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Native Americans & Pictures Howard Terpning
panflute music zamfir

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For many people living on Indian reservations in the United States, jobs are scarce and living conditions are hard.

In some places, crime rates are rising fast.

Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman reports from the Pine Ridge Sioux reservation in the state of South Dakota, where the tribal policemen who struggle to keep the peace say criminal gangs are getting more active, and more violent.

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The People of Great Spirit

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Spine chilling video dedicated to Native American culture and Spirit. Sit back and get ready for spiritual enlightenment.

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Native Americans in the United States is the phrase that describes indigenous peoples from North America now encompassed by the continental United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii. They comprise a large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as intact political communities. Native Americans have also been known as Indians, American Indians, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, Colored, First Americans, Indigenous, Original Americans, Red Indians, Redskins or Red Men.

European colonization of the Americas led to centuries of conflict and adjustment between Old and New World societies. Most of the written historical record about Native Americans was made by Europeans after initial contact. Native Americans lived in hunter/farmer subsistence societies with significantly different value systems than those of the European colonists. The differences in culture between the Native Americans and Europeans, and the shifting alliances among different nations of each culture, led to great misunderstandings and long lasting cultural conflicts.

Estimates of the pre-Columbian population of what today constitutes the United States of America vary significantly, ranging from 1 million to 18 million.

Native Americans today have a unique relationship with the United States of America because they can be found as members of nations, tribes, or bands of Native Americans who have sovereignty or independence from the government of the United States. Their societies and cultures still flourish amidst a larger immigrated American populace of African, Asian, Middle Eastern, and European peoples. Native Americans who were not already U.S. citizens were granted citizenship in 1924 by the Congress of the United States.

Seminole Wind

Ever since the days of old,
Men would search for wealth untold.
They’d dig for silver and for gold,
And leave the empty holes.
And way down south in the Everglades,
Where the black water rolls and the saw grass waves.
The eagles fly and the otters play,
In the land of the Seminole.

So blow, blow Seminole wind,
Blow like you’re never gonna blow again.
I’m calling to you like a long lost friend,
But I know who you are.
And blow, blow from the Okeechobee,
All the way up to Micanopy.
Blow across the home of the Seminole,
The alligators and the garr.

Progress came and took its toll,
And in the name of flood control,
They made their plans and they drained the land,
Now the glades are going dry.
And the last time I walked in the swamp,
I sat upon a Cypress stump,
I listened close and I heard the ghost,
Of Osceola cry.

So blow, blow Seminole wind,
Blow like you’re never gonna blow again.
I’m calling to you like a long lost friend
But I know who you are.
And blow, blow from the Okeechobee,
All the way up to Micanopy.
Blow across the home of the Seminole,
The alligators and the garr.

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The latest round-up of News From Indian Country on the Native News Update from the studios on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation at Reserve, Wisconsin with host Paul DeMain and stories on James Arthur Ray being broke, the rejection of a discrimination complaint filed by American Indians, Arlyn Ackley in serious condition after a car accident, decades-old lawsuits involving water rights for Gila River Indian Community, a celebration of Native Writers, Lewis Taylor delivering the annual State of the Tribes Address, and the Red Lake State of the Band Address.

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